Hair Sculpture: An Innovative Art Form

liza_shariza · Post time 2-5-2011 02:21 PM

President Obama’s recent trip to China earned many accolades, and the Chinese welcomed his highly televised arrival with open arms. Chinese sculptors honored his presence with diverse models of his image, ranging from the highly traditional to the unconventionally unique.

Of all of the creative designs done in homage to the American Chief of State, surely the most bizarre has to be a small sculpture made in his image from four kilograms of human hair that took him seven days and seven nights to complete (which is a rather poetic homage to the powers of creation all its own).

Talented hairdresser and Beijing artist, Huang Xin, spent four months and 6.5 kilograms of hair on the two pieces of work paying tribute to America indicated in the image above.

Inspired by current events, this artist has used hair as a medium to express his unusual talent before. The media has been drawn to the works of Huang Xin and his hair-molding talent since he constructed the Tiananmen Square model made out of hair to commemorate in a way like no other, the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

By using discarded hair, he is not only utilizing a medium the source of which is plentiful for him as a working hair-dresser, he is also, in his own way, recycling and immortalizing the by products of human life.